Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bloodshed was one result. After a generation of unfulfilled French promises to move towards home rule, Morocco crackled with sporadic murders and riots. Its 5,000,000 Arabs (60% of the total population) demanded that the French restore their 43-year-old Sultan, Ben Youssef, Commander of the Faithful, whom the French deposed a year ago this month and exiled to Madagascar with a retinue of concubines. The rebels were led by an outlawed party of once moderate nationalists : the underground Istiqlal...
...fact is," said Hu Shih, "that Formosa was far from the rule of law and democracy in those early years of 1949-51 ... and only in the last three years, and notably since June 1952, has there been a far greater measure of civil liberties and the rule of law than at any time in the past . . . Freedom of speech and the press is now shared by all who have the moral courage to speak out . . . Elections have been and still are quite free. In the recent May 2 elections, the Kuomintang candidate for mayor in the capital city...
...noisy. Stars were demanding-and getting-as much as $6,400 a day. As many as three pictures were being shot at once with the same cast. Directors were arrogantly demanding 800 horses for a single scene. Drinking orgies, studio spies and gorgeous villas with swimming pools were the rule of the day. The purple sports shirt had replaced the purple toga, and through the narrow vias where Nero's chariot had clanked, the Jaguars were prowling...
...actress in Italy, 46-year-old Anna (Open City) Magnani, has been so thoroughly overlooked in the girly-burly that she has not made a picture in two years. Six of the new top ten were picked by their directors out of beauty contests. In their films, as a rule, they do not even have to speak; the Italian system of dubbing sound track into a film after the camerawork is done makes it possible, as one director explains, "to put the acting in later"-in somebody else's voice. Says one wag: "An actress in Italy needs only...
...Nanyang may well become free China's academic frontier, the conserver of its culture, its link with the West. "I say this humbly," says Tan, "but into the diverse cultures of the South Seas - Burma, Thailand, IndoChina-it was the culture and civilization of China that brought the rule of law, of ethics, the written language. We want to preserve this, to give our children a chance to learn and study this heritage. And we want others, if they wish, to be able to do the same...